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Wait, wait, what you’ve already seen from the image isn’t the world’s smallest microphone we’re here to argue. Actually, the smallest capacitor microphone built by Noshirvani University of Technology researcher Bahram Azizollah Ganji is merely 0.5 X 0.5 mm big, almost invisible to the naked eyes. However, it comes with really high sensitivity and low power consumption, and can be widely used for a variety of purposes such as diagnosis of cardiac problems or marine surveillance.

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What if your clothes could play music? What if your clothes could act as a guitar? If you’re interested in both the two ideas, you must thank MIT’s Research Lab of Electronics. During the past decade, the lab has been working hard to develop fibers so that they can interact with the environment, and in the August issue of Nature Materials, the lab announced a new kind of fibers that can detect and produce sound. The heart of the acoustic fibers is a plastic used in microphones, and it can change shapes when an electric field is applied to it. So it’s not a fantasy to apply these fibers into clothes, though we may still have to wait for years to see the real acoustic coats and shirts in the store. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well, indeed I don’ think we may need so complicated a pen like this, a modular pen that includes a pen-point part, a key functional part and a terminal part. You may use it as a ball-point pen, a pencil or an electronic pen, as here’re several kinds of pen-points available. As for the key functional part, it is constructed with a player, a LED light, a charger interface, a memory and a battery. With a Bluetooth on the end, the modular pen also doubles a camera, a microphone, a laser pointer, as well as a wireless network receiver. It’s amazingly powerful! If you’re someone pursuing multifunctional products, you should never miss the module pen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You could never fancy owning such a mini karaoke, merely the same size as a Moto phone! Apart from the basic function to play music, the innovative player is also your personal musical instrument to meet your unexpected needs of singing a song or making some phonetic notes. Only with one ORIO, you may change any places into your solo concerts!

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Even if you used to perform quite awesomely in music, you still cannot be kept away from Karaoke, let alone a KTV time at home. No need to worry about disturbing your neighbors, because the Mute Karaoke Mic can protect your voice from escaping with the damping material around your Mic. As a result, your voice will be kept in either the PC or a Nintendo Wii player through the USB.

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Specially designed for iPod nano and iPod touch, the tiny little iPod microphone lives up to its name in size, shape, and usage. Just plug the thumbtack directly into your headphone jack and you could then use it as a personal voice recorder. There’re three color options, white, black, and red.

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Yes, I know what you are thinking about. It is pretty weird. However, the shape is not merely used to attract your eyes, but to record better sound. These two ear-shaped mics can collect sound wave in the similar manner as human beings so that you can get realistic sound effect while playing back. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With these two gadgets, your office gonna be more romantic. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hands-free speakerphone is a very convenient while driving, however, the mic is usually not so sensitive that others won’t get your sound clearly. This tie up concept is a good solution. It could be used as a tie and the sound is adjustable. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you wanna know what your girlfriend talk to her friends? With this unique device, you gonna have a hearing of superman. By using ultra sensitive microphone, this device is capable of picking up clear audio from all directions while sitting snugly in your ear. It also comes with a volume control for you to receive clear voice from different distance.

Additionally, the best of this gadget is that it’s size is just fit for your ear, with which it gonna be safer to be a spy. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A basketball cap? Sure it is, but …

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